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Elena Myers (born November 21, 1993) made history in 2010 as the first female to win an AMA Pro Racing sprint road race.〔〔 She is also the first woman to win a professional motorsports race of any kind at Daytona International Speedway, on March 17, 2012.〔Staff, Myers First Woman To Win At Dayton, National Speed Sport News, retrieved 2012-04-12 ()〕〔Staff, (19, March 2012), Elena Myers is First Female to Win at Daytona, Rider Magazine, retrieved 2012-04-12 ()〕〔M4 Suzuki, (18, March 2012), (Elena Myers Wins DAYTONA! ), AMA Pro Road Racing.〕 Myers might be the youngest female ever to enter the AMA racing circuit. In 2007, at age 13, she was under contract with Kawasaki Team Green〔 three years before she was old enough to obtain a drivers license.〔 She currently rides a Suzuki GSX-R1000 in the MotoAmerica Superbike Championship. ==Amateur racing== Myers began riding at age eight, with the help and encouragement of her parents. She began with pocketbike racing, then progressed to mini bikes, then to supermoto.〔 At age 11 (2006), Myers raced on John Ulrich's Team Roadracing World〔 in the United States Grand Prix Racers Union (USGPRU) National Series class and won her first race,〔 riding a 1997 Honda RS125 GP.〔 She then gained sponsorship assistance from Kawasaki and Road RacingWorld.com's "Kids: Don't Smoke!" program.〔 She also had a sponsorship from Umbrella Girls USA, a modeling agency for paddock girls.〔 In 2008, riding a Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R, she won a Western-Eastern Roadracers' Association (WERA) national race, and had several podium finishes.〔 She was racing as amateur against adults since age 11, but as professional competes in league for teenagers.〔 When she was 11, John Ulrich promised to take Myers to Daytona International Speedway when she was 16, the minimum age to turn pro.〔 As promised, she made her professional debut at Daytona on March 11, 2010. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elena Myers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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